The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 201 The Weird Bodyguard

"I think you must have noticed. Looking at our bodyguards, they are exactly the same no matter what aspect and angle they look at."

Ning Yuan looked out the window while talking: "But you know, there can't be exactly the same people in this world. I pretended to be careless before and cut one of them with a fruit knife. Although he tried to avoid it, But I still made a gash on him, not deep, but it did bleed."

"You mean, yesterday afternoon?" Hearing his words, Yang Yang began to recall what happened yesterday afternoon. Ning Yuan did "accidentally" cut the hand of one of the bodyguards with a knife while cutting fruit.

There was a bit of confusion at the time, and although it was resolved in the end, he remembered that one of the bodyguards left the living room with the back of his hand.

"Well. I checked it out when I got up this morning. There was a shallow bloodstain on one of the people's hands, which was scabbed."

Ning Yuan said, as if remembering something bad, he frowned, "And after I listened to the answering machine in the living room, I saw the scabbed blood on the hands of the two bodyguards."

"Have both!?" Hearing Ning Yuan's words, Yang Yang was taken aback, and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Ning Yuan said, with a wry smile: "Otherwise, you think, I'm so good, why would I agree to drink that talisman water obediently?! Because the bloodstains on their hands are exactly the same! Not only the location, but also the The scabs were all the same size and spaced apart! Especially when he said 'the master's will is irresistible', don't you see something wrong?"

"I found out." Yang Yang nodded, recalling the scene at that time, and said: "At that moment, they all became very... How should I say? Serious? Although they are usually serious, but the way they looked at that time As if I could rush over at any time, the atmosphere became terrifying in an instant, and my hairs stood on end."

"You just feel that the atmosphere is not right. You know what? When I took a closer look and found a scab on each of their hands, I was about to collapse!"

Ning Yuan said, sighing: "You said, who is the one who kidnapped us? How could they make such a terrible thing?"

"Scary thing?" Yang Yang repeated his words in a puzzled way, blinking his eyes: "Although it's a bit... But, aren't they human?"

"Huh... people? Are you sure?" Ning Yuan twitched his lips as if he had heard something funny, turned to look at Yang Yang and said, "Are you sure they are people? Six identical people? Even the voice and movement form They are all the same, let alone someone who can even replicate wounds!"

"I..." Yang Yang opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

"Believe it or not, go out and beat them now, and after a while you will find that each of them will be injured, and the injured places and wounds are exactly the same."

"So, do you still think that they are human?"

Being kidnapped, locked in a house, getting along with a few people of unknown origin, and being forced to drink talisman water with unknown ingredients and functions is already terrifying.

Now Ning Yuan actually told him that the few bodyguards he was with might not even be human, which made Yang Yang almost collapse.

"Then...then what do you think...they are?" Yang Yang asked almost in a mosquito-like voice, as if the louder voice would wake up the bodyguards wandering around the house and make them mutate into monsters.

"I don't know." Ning Yuan shook his head and said thoughtfully, "But, do you still remember what was said on the answering machine? The mechanical voice said that these bodyguards are his servants, and they are now taking care of us?"

"I remember." Yang Yang nodded, recalling what the answering machine said when he first came to the house, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked, "Do you think they are shikigami-like things? Similar What about puppets?"

"I don't know about this." Hearing his conjecture, Ning Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm just a mortal like you. I don't know about the classification of such spells. I just know more about monsters than you do. And these things are not necessarily true. However, judging from their current performance, I think your guess should be the closest."

"You think so too?" Yang Yang was a little surprised when he heard his words, "At the beginning, the mechanical voice called them servants, and I felt very relieved towards them in the words. Speaking of which, I think it is more likely that a puppet or something."

"That's what I thought at first, but now the question is, why do their wounds replicate? Is it deliberately used to confuse us, or are they like this?"

Ning Yuan said, as if talking to himself, he began to ask: "If it is deliberately used to confuse us, then what is their purpose? We are two mortals who are powerless, and they hope What are we going to do with it? If it's a flaw in them...then, if we kill one of them, the others will die too?"

Yang Yang listened to his analysis, blinked his eyes, and thought, Ning Yuan is indeed much smarter than himself, at least in the current environment, he cannot be as clear-minded and organized as he is, and can reflect Analyze the opponent's purpose in the past.

"Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but when I said those water talismans were broken, their tone was obviously dissatisfied."

After Ning Yuan asked back, he found that he had no idea, so he changed the subject and said to Yang Yang: "I suspect that they are dissatisfied because I said Fu Shui."

"Talk about Fu Shui?" Yang Yang raised his eyebrows, and almost subconsciously remembered a force that had the ability and possibility to kidnap them, so he said, "You mean... Taoism?"

The last two words Yang Yang didn't make a sound, but said it with his mouth. The so-called partition has ears, and at this moment, both of them seem to be like soldiers.

"I think so too." Seeing that Yang Yang was the same as he suspected, Ning Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. He was worried before, but Yang Yang couldn't think of this.Now it seems that he is actually much smarter than he appears.

"Then what should we do now?" Yang Yang thought of the six bodyguards outside the room, and the answering machine whose identity and purpose were unknown, and his uneasiness surged up again, "Then we Are you just sitting there waiting for Yuan Mu and the others to come to rescue you?"

"Otherwise?" Hearing what he said, Ning Yuan asked back, "Do you think we have any other methods besides this?"

Although the words were not pleasant, what he said was indeed the truth. Apart from waiting for Yuan Mu and the others to find out that he and Ning Yuan had disappeared, and finding a way to find them, there was nothing to do now.

What Yang Yang didn't know was that this was just the beginning.

From the second day after they drank the talisman water, he would be taken to a room in the villa alone from 03:30 to [-]:[-] every afternoon, and then the bodyguards would start to ask them some questions, some of which were seen by Yang Yang. There is no reason to come here, and some of them are things that he can't even figure out.

"You can see the prototype of a monster, can't you?" The bodyguard in front of him looked at Yang Yang expressionlessly and asked, "Why is that?"

"I don't know." Ever since Yang Yang and Ning Yuan confirmed that these people were not mortals, he knew that he could see monsters, and they probably already knew about it.

Since they will investigate Ning Yuan's background in order to kidnap him, it is obvious that they are being investigated.So he didn't want to hide the previous question at all, because he couldn't hide it at all.

"So, does your family have a gene that can see monsters?" The bodyguard was noncommittal about his answer, just lowered his head and wrote a few words on the document paper, and then asked.

"I don't know." Yang Yang still doesn't know about this question. In his impression, the only family members are his parents and his uncle who adopted him after his parents divorced.

"What about your elders? Have you never met any elders above your parents?" Hearing his answer, the man's tone remained unchanged, "Think about it carefully, as long as you think about it, we can let you out."

Hearing this sentence, Yang Yang raised his eyebrows, thinking, these people have spent so much effort to kidnap him, vacate another villa, and send six weird bodyguards to watch him, is it to ask himself family tree?
This is too strange, he is not a descendant of the royal family and nobles, if he remembers correctly, his parents are just ordinary working class!
So why on earth are they so interested in their own family?

Yang Yang looked at the bodyguard in front of him, was silent for a while, and then said: "I don't remember seeing him before, do you think I should?"

"Yes, we think you should have seen them." Regarding Yang Yang's question, the bodyguard didn't even hesitate, and said, "It's just that you were too young to remember."

"Maybe." Yang Yang nodded, and decided to follow his words to see if he could figure out anything useful.

"Okay, since you can't remember, let's move on to the next question." Unexpectedly, they didn't bother with this question, but started the next round of questions, "Then you must remember, what is your last question?" What is the appearance and age of the first youkai you saw?"

Hearing this question, Yang Yang's pupils shrank suddenly, and he jumped up from the sofa. He looked at the bodyguard's expressionless face, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

(End of this chapter)